Payment is NOT Enough

The salary I get by the end of the month is finely calculated and split. There are times when a meager salary cannot make a day stay in the account. It’s good it doesn’t occupy a space in the bank. By the end of the month, the credit would amount to nu. 10000/- or more leaving still in debt. I hardly get nu. 13,0000/-. This is how my money splits in a month.

1.       House rent: nu. 2,500/-

2.       TV bill: nu. 300/-

3.       Electric bill: nu. 100/- plus

4.       Car petrol: nu. 1,500/- or more depending on the emergency

5.       School collection: nu. 500/- or sometimes it amounts to more than 1000/-

6.       A miscellaneous donation like religious purpose: nu. 300/-

7.       Visiting sick people: nu. 300/- or more

8.       Visiting relatives: nu.300 or more

9.       Veggies, rice; foodings: nu. 3000/-

10.   For a child: nu. 200/-

Total=10,000/-

The salary I get now is nu. 13,314/- after a heavy loan deduction. The meager salary is not really enough. The expenditure escalates more than what I receive sometimes. We don’t have any money left for holidaying or such extra income for any kind of family trip.

This is a little bill of a rough calculation incurred in this month and is prepared by my wife.

And this donation comes frequently.

I really feel that teachers and doctors/hospital staff have to be paid handsomely because services like teachers are ‘sitting penniless on a beach job’; no TA/DA, no training, no outside tour, no nothing. Only a dry and meager monthly salary. I hardly know how to fill up TA/DA. I sometimes fail to say what TA/DA stands for.